Los Baños station
![]() PNR Los Baños Station as of November 20, 2021 | |||||||||||
Location | Los Baños, Laguna | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 14°10′41″N 121°13′17″E / 14.17806°N 121.22139°ECoordinates: 14°10′41″N 121°13′17″E / 14.17806°N 121.22139°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Philippine National Railways | ||||||||||
Line(s) | PNR Southrail | ||||||||||
Platforms | Side platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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Station code | LS | ||||||||||
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Opened | Initial: August 15, 1910 As part of MSC IRRI Extension: December 1, 2019 | ||||||||||
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Los Baños station is a station on the South Main Line ("Southrail") of the Philippine National Railways. Like all PNR stations, the station is at grade.
History[]
American era[]
The station was built on August 15, 1910, to serve the town of Los Baños and was originally part of the Pagsanjan Branch Line of the Manila Railroad Company and of the South Main Line as soon as the cut off line going to San Pablo was completed in 1923.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/MRR_Los_Banos_Station_circa_1909_1920.jpg/220px-MRR_Los_Banos_Station_circa_1909_1920.jpg)
Present[]
In December 2019, the station become active once again as PNR extended the Metro South Commuter trips by adding 5 more stations on the present commuter line. KiHa 59 series and KiHa 35 trainsets ply the route, with the former servicing the entire route to Tutuban and the latter going up to Alabang only. Services became disrupted again as soon as the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic took effect mid-March 2020. As of October 2021, the service is still inactive.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/PNR_Kiha350_Set_3_approaching_Los_Ba%C3%B1os_station.png/220px-PNR_Kiha350_Set_3_approaching_Los_Ba%C3%B1os_station.png)
Future development[]
A new Los Baños station will be built further south of IRRI station at Brgy. Putho-Tuntungin under the PNR South Long Haul project, a reconstruction of the existing narrow-gauge rail line to standard gauge. It will be composed of three tracks, with two passing siding for each of its platforms, with the middle track reserved for express trains skipping the station.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ "Stations Layout Plan – Google Drive". drive.google.com. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ^ "PNR South Long Haul Project". pnr.gov.ph. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- Philippine National Railways stations